Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-15
THE DAIRY.
Cleanliness in creanse,;e..

SSeA"<tSte6S tl CcP0NleyIcS.
MIR: Edmund Hersey, in a communica-
lion to an eastern journal in relation 10
creameries, has practical things to say that
but to any dairy, however small. The gist
OF his observations is given below:
In running a large creamery. the super
intendent will make it his business to see
that everything is kept sweet and clean,
and he will also see that the whole process
of manufacturing butter is uniform one
day with another, and above all he will
see that the butter which is sent out for
sale is of n quality that will be q credit 10
him will command a good price. When
q superintendent will not or cannot do
this, he will be very likely to get his dis
charge and n better man put in his place.
But there is another advantage of o-ope
ative Gre ameries which is so important that
1t should be recognized by every friend to
farmers wives. The butter being made
in them fol- a whole village, the women of
such village are relieved of q work which
has always been beyond their strength and
which should never have been given them
to do, for many a young wife has been
hurried into an early grave by having, in
addition to her other duties, to not only
churn the butter, but work it over, which
required more strength than IN ordinary
~overworked M possesses. [ trust that
the time is coming when no intelligent,
~kind-hearted man will think of requiring
his wife to make the butter any more than
he will require her to 60 into the woods a
cold winters day to cut timber. Let us
rejoice at the introduction of every new
movement which will tighten the burdens
of a farmers wife
Points ofa Good MtL.cr.
A good mixer must be able to eat a great
deal of food. Milk cannot be made with
out something 10 make it from. Tho COW
does not secrete milk from the air, but
from her blood. aud her blood ia supplied
from the food she eats. To eat a great
deal q COW must have a strong jaw, and we
may put this down as one of the marks of
a good mixer. A strong jaw does not
necessarily require a big head, at least
what is called q bulls head, large in the
upper part, but a strong lower jaw, with
strong muscles to operate it. Any expan-
sion of the head in other directions may be
n detriment as drawing from her food to
support it.
A good mixer must digest q great deal
of food. This requires an ample stomach
OF stomachs, for the COW has four. Alarge
stomach is indicated externally by q large
abdomen and a great breadth between the
hips, or a great breadth of loins. A Judge
of COWS will tell you that a COW should be
wed~ge-shaped, tapering from abdomen to
nose.
A good mixer will have large milk veins
that is, large veins leading to the udder,
under the belly. These large veins indi-
cate u large mixer.
Whether what is called the escutcheon,
the portion of the hind part of the udder
and adjacent parts on which the hairs turn
back in opposition to the general direction
of the hair, is any indication to the milking
qualities of the cow, is q disputed ques-
ton. Many believe that where it is large
it indicates a good mixer; where small, o
poor one. Others put no faith in it.
A soft, velvet feeling OF the skin, and a
rich, yellow color, especially in the inside
of the ears, is believed to indicate a rich
mixer, ut least, if not a large one. 1t is
believed to show q tendency TO fat, and
| consequently butter.